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Bet You Missed It--What Do Spies And Poker Players Have In Common?, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Curating Collective Collections--A Forest For The Trees: A Response To Jacob Nadal's "Silvaculture In The Stacks", Bob Kieft, Andrew Stauffer

Against the Grain

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Optimizing Library Services--Digitizing The Humanities: A How-To Guide For The Savvy Librarian, Mandi Shepp, Lindsay Johnston, Ann Lupold

Against the Grain

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Decoder Ring--Unexpectedly Musical Updates, Jerry Spiller

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Full Page Ads

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Reflections On The 2011 Pda Issue, Xan Arch

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Alicia Wise Profile

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Little Red Herrings--Fitbit, Libbit, Throwafit, Mark Y. Herring

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Op Ed--I, Library, Lura D. Sanborn

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From The Reference Desk--Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

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Random Ramblings--Scholarly Publishing In Retirement, Bob Holley

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Collecting To The Core--The Renaissance: Secular And Sacred, Anne Doherty, Thomas M. Izbicki

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Let's Get Technical--A Technical Services Perspective On Taking On A Shared Retention Project, Part 1, Stacey Marien, Alayne Mundt

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Back Talk--I'M A Publisher Too!, Ann Okerson

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Stl And Emerging Ebook Business Models, Robecca Seger, Lenny Allen

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Pelikan's Antidisambiguation--World War Iii, Or Simply War, Ver. 3.0--A Soft Rollout?, Michael P. Pelikan

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Questions And Answers--Copyright Column, Laura N. Gassaway

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Mobile Access—What The Library Wants: Mobiles As Discovery Enhancers, Laura Horton, Stacy Sieck

Charleston Library Conference

Library users now expect to be able to access academic content at any time from any location—not just in the library on a computer, but on their mobile phones, tablets, e‐readers, and other mobile devices. Taylor & Francis surveyed 139 individuals to discover how use mobiles are used in a library setting, how publishers can help with content discovery in the library and which mobile functionalities are considered important.Taylor & Francis found that 78% of respondents rated mobile integration to find resources as important.

Publishing has changed dramatically over the last decade, making the shift from print to electronic. From …

How Do Librarians Prefer To Access Collections?, Julie Petr, Lea Currie

Charleston Library Conference

The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries first made the discovery tool, Primo (Ex Libris), available to their users in the fall of 2013. Since that time, in spite of many improvements and updates, librarians still prefer to use other resources. In an effort to facilitate open and honest discussion about the Primo discovery tool and to make recommendations to improve the functionality of the instrument, librarians at KU were asked to complete a survey that helped them compare Primo to their favorite database and to Google Scholar. The survey included a known item search, a prescribed topic search, and the …

The Ethereal Library: Thinking Creatively When You Have No Space To Think, Corey Seeman

Charleston Library Conference

Today’s library operates in two distinct spaces. First, there is the physical space, where we provide our community a place to work, where we provide access to print materials, and where we can provide a place to provide service. Second, there is the ethereal space, where we connect with users, provide outreach, and where our value is revealed. And in the best case scenario, a library has these two spaces to operate from. However, over the past few years, many academic libraries have seen their footprint errode. This is especially true from the vantage point of the academic departmental library …

Evolution Of Mobile Device Use In Clinical Settings, Robert Brooks, Jeannine Creazzo

Charleston Library Conference

In September 2014, Wolters Kluwer, Medical Research completed its second annual survey of end user search and access behavior with professional health information. The questionnaire addressed changes in clinical workflows resulting from the increased use of mobile devices in clinical settings. Through comparison with prior year’s data, we contemplate changes in how specific use cases fit with specific devices, the effect of multiple screens on usage behavior, and how users value different content types in the mobile environment. With responses from over 12,000 users (approximately 4,000 physicians, 3,400 nurses, and the remainder medical students, faculty, and other provider groups), we …

Discovery, A New Way Of Searching (Thinking): The Challenges, Trials, And Tribulations, Margaret M. Kain

Charleston Library Conference

Google and like search engines have changed the way library users search and retrieve information. The typical library user has come to expect discovery or other search tools to provide one‐stop (one‐box) searching with seamless and immediate results. While our students and faculty are traveling on this new discovery highway, not all of our library faculty and staff have made it to the on‐ramp for this new approach of searching (Thinking).

Thinking The Unthinkable: A Library Without A Public Catalog, Coen Wilders

Charleston Library Conference

Two years ago Utrecht University Library (UUL) in the Netherlands decided to focus on delivery instead of discovery. Based on international studies, users statistics, and surveys, UUL concluded that library discovery tools have become less relevant because users find their research and teaching material increasingly outside the framework of the library. This conclusion had major implications for both UUL and its users. In 2012 UUL decided to shut down the discovery system Omega, custom‐made for finding electronic material owned by its library, and—more important—not to implement another library discovery service. After nine months of preparation, on September 1, 2013, Omega …

"Punctuality Is The Thief Of Time": The Earnest Pursuit Of Social Media In The Library, Elyse L. Profera, Maria Atilano

Charleston Library Conference

The way social media tools are selected and used in the library changes regularly in an evolving digital and social climate. The opportunities social media presents to the library community includes, but is not restricted to, user engagement, professional networking, informational exchange, and increasing the discoverability of existing online resources at the library.

Taylor & Francis recently released its white paper entitled “Use of Social Media by the Library: Current Practices and Future Opportunities.” The white paper has been researched and compiled by Taylor & Francis to provide an overview of current practices relating to the use of social media …

Implications Of Online Media On Academic Library Collections, Kirstin M. Dougan

Charleston Library Conference

Libraries’ market share of discovery has been declining rapidly, and in some cases this is directly related to where the content users need and want resides. Music recording delivery models have changed dramatically in the last several years, with more performers and labels offering content directly to consumers via downloads only. Unfortunately, this model is one in which libraries cannot usually legally participate due to licensing agreements. Another issue at play is the growing presence of quality content on sites like YouTube, which users are already very familiar and comfortable with. In light of this, user behavior has been evolving …

How Users’ Perceptions Of E‐Books Have Changed—Or Not: Comparing Parallel Survey Responses, Tara T. Cataldo, Trey Shelton, Steven Carrico, Cecilia Botero

Charleston Library Conference

This project focuses on comparing the results of two surveys conducted on e‐book usability at college and university libraries across the state of Florida. The first survey was carried out by librarians from the University of Florida in 2009 and provided benchmark responses for similar questions asked in a follow‐up survey completed in 2014. Results of the two surveys conducted five years apart are an enlightening snapshot of user feedback on e‐book usability, while providing insight on key issues and trends in e‐book use. In addition to measuring side‐by‐side results of the two Florida surveys, the paper frames this comparison …

Return On Investment: New Strategies For Marketing Digital Resources To Academic Faculty And Students From Three Perspectives: Publisher, Collection Development, And Research Services, Elyse L. Profera, Michael A. Arthur, Barbara G. Tierney

Charleston Library Conference

Game‐changing strategies for marketing digital resources to end users are crucial for establishing return on investment in this period of reduced library collection budgets and challenging resource prices. When expensive digital resources are purchased by academic libraries, there needs to be a marketing plan in place for getting these resources into the hands of end users as quickly as possible.

One strategy for success is a marketing collaboration between the publisher and the academic library. The Profera, Arthur, Tierney 2014 Charleston Conference presentation on this topic focused on the success achieved at the University of Central Florida Libraries where such …

Share Those Stats! Collaborating With Faculty To Make Evidence‐Based Serials Collection Development Decisions, Alana Verminski

Charleston Library Conference

During the 2014 fiscal year, the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Library faced a temporary budget reduction, and library administration anticipated much larger and permanent cuts in the coming fiscal years. This budget reduction prompted a need to critically evaluate the library’s journal subscriptions and as a consequence, the author developed a new collaborative review process. In this new process, librarians leveraged usage statistics, collection development experience and the subject expertise of faculty to make more informed collection development decisions. Although many libraries have involved faculty in journal cancellation projects, the St. Mary’s College of Maryland librarians took a proactive …

Collection Data Visualization: Seeing The Forest Through The Treemap, Geoffrey P. Timms, Jeremy M. Brown

Charleston Library Conference

Collection management is one of the more complicated responsibilities in librarianship. In this task, the librarian must simultaneously synthesize the needs, desires, and aspirations of the institution, departments, and individuals. While much of this is elusive qualitative data that may not yield a definitive answer, we also have increasingly accessible hard data from our integrated library systems (ILSs) that we can synthesize to complement it. In the latest generations of ILSs, this information is readily available to use for statistical analysis and visualization. When it comes to our increasingly limited materials budgets, it is important to make sure that we …